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Third Reich Nazi 5 Reichsmark Silver Coin - German 5 Reichsmark Coin The 5 Reichsmark coin was a large silver denomination issued in Germany from the early 1930s through the Nazi period, continuing a coinage tradition established under the Weimar Republic. After 1933 the design was altered to incorporate National Socialist symbolism alongside the traditional eagle, reflecting the regime's practice of adapting existing state institutions and currency to its own iconography. Such coins remained in general circulation as legal tender until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. The 5 Reichsmark coin was a large silver denomination first introduced in the late Weimar period and continued into the Nazi era, when several designs were modified to incorporate Third Reich symbolism such as the swastika alongside the traditional Reichsadler. These coins circulated as ordinary legal tender throughout Germany during the 1930s and war years, used in everyday commerce rather than issued as commemorative or military items. Their continued production reflects the regime's broader pattern of repurposing existing state institutions, including the currency, to project its ideology.